Xbox One E3 demonstrations running on Windows 7 PCs

PS4 demonstrations running on actual PS4s.

We run this sort of story basically every year that there’s a new console revealed, but it’s always good so here you go: Xbox One’s E3 demonstration games were reportedly just running on reasonably high-end Windows 7 PCs, with NVIDIA GTX cards.

Why they didn’t use Windows 8 PCs instead is a mystery, but shots taken by users on the floor clearly show Corsair PC cases inside the Xbox One cupboards, with Xbox One controllers attached.

The Xbox One’s GPU is a modified AMD card, reportedly in the power range of a Radeon 7790.

I’d just like to hear Microsoft’s reasoning for why they used those rather than… you know the X-Box One console they are trying to push. Mostly because if its anything like their current PR efforts… it will just make things worse and worse for them.

So does this mean we can expect to see cross platforming between games like Destiny, which plays on the Xbox One and currently has not been announced for PC? It’s a worthy question for such a debate. I’d genuinely be interested to hear some responses to this.